Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Where Are You Storing Your Research Days Poster? Promoting An Online Repository For Research Days Submissions, Meaghan B. Corbett, Anne Linton, Catherine M. Sluder, Gisela Butera

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

In January 2015, the George Washington University Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library began to strategize how to increase student and faculty awareness of Himmelfarb's Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC) institutional repository, and to encourage them to self-archive their GW Research Days abstracts and posters for permanent storage.

Assessing Use Of Two Discovery Services At Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, Jolinda Thompson, Elaine Sullo, Laura Abate, Kathleen Lyons, Meaghan Corbett

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Introduction

The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, at The George Washington University, introduced Health Information @ Himmelfarb, a custom health sciences focused implementation of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in the fall of 2012. Less than a year later, the Library Catalog was migrated to Innovative’s Encore. With two different discovery tools delivering some overlapping content and features, librarians wanted to know more about how the two services were being used.

Methods

A Discovery Task Force completed a staff focus group and a brief demographic survey of Health Information @ Himmelfarb users in spring 2015. All library staff who search the services …

Being The Inspiration: Seizing The Fosce Opportunity, Alexandra Gomes, Tom Harrod

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

The launch of the revised medical school curriculum in Fall 2014 provided new opportunities for librarians to collaborate with clinical faculty. As a result of our past informatics instruction embedded in the first year curriculum, we were invited to expand this content as part of a new formative Objective Structured Clinical Examination (FOSCE) initiative. Two reference librarians worked closely with faculty to develop original case-based scenarios that were taught by a team of six reference librarians over the course of a year.

In FOSCEs, small groups of students rotated through simulated patient encounters in order to demonstrate their clinical knowledge …

Video Tutorials Help Students In The Health Sciences Improve The Quality Of Their Cited Sources, Paige Mcdonald, Catherine Golden, Laurie Lyons, Paul Levett

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Through a George Washington University Emerging Scholars program grant, faculty and instructional designers collaborated with the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library to develop video tutorials for new graduate and undergraduate students in the Health Sciences to improve their scholarship skills.

A Profession Without Limits: The Changing Role Of Reference Librarians, Elaine Sullo, Laura E. Abate, Thomas Harrod, Gisela Butera, Alexandra Gomes, Paul Levett

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Librarians have taken on new and evolving roles, many of which have come about based on a need that can be uniquely satisfied with a librarian's background and expertise. Some roles have simply been filled due to a librarian's availability and willingness to volunteer for something new. In considering how these roles will continue to evolve and affect our daily work, we've identified and categorized the changing roles and responsibilities of Himmelfarb health science librarians.